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Since you specifically mentioned kidneys: >In the summer of 2005, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual Society for Cryobiology meeting, Fahy announced
by eudox 12y ago
Since you specifically mentioned kidneys:
>In the summer of 2005, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual Society for Cryobiology meeting, Fahy announced that Twenty-First Century Medicine had successfully cryopreserved a rabbit kidney at -130°C by vitrification and transplanted it into a rabbit after rewarming, with subsequent long-term life support by the vitrified-rewarmed kidney as the sole kidney. This research breakthrough was later published in the peer-reviewed journal Organogenesis.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Fahy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Fahy
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094092 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094092
- cjbprime 12y agoThat's exciting, thank you for the correction. (Happen to know whether they've done any larger organs?)
- jacquesm 12y agoEntire animals can freeze: http://www.livescience.com/32175-can-frogs-survive-being-frozen.html http://www.livescience.com/32175-can-frogs-survive-being-fro...
- Pwnguinz 12y agoThe abstract makes no mention of -130°C, but digging into the actual paper (can be read here: www.21cm.com/pdfs/cryopreservation_advances.pdf), it does mention: "Fig. 13. Confinement of ice formation to the pelvis of a rabbit kidney that was perfused with M22 at 22°C for 25min, bisected, and allowed to passively cool in air in a CryoStar freezer at about 130°C... The vast majority of the kidney appears to have vitrified and is indistinguishable from the appearance of the kidney prior to cooling." (Emphasis mine)